Accurately Communicating Failure
In this project, they applying topic modeling and temporal segmentation to the 1918 newspapers, ThemeDelta visualized the evolution of topics and tones over time. Allowing the researchers to interpret patterns in public discourse. However, with that errors came about, one of their values include understanding and reporting failure.
“Newspapers offer a textured and layered body of text that is
best understood in context through careful reading across multiple titles over a sustained period of time. By decontextualizing the text, disconnecting the language, and simplifying the categories, data mining methods compromise both the integrity and the complexity of these
sources.”
Connection to Digital Humanities
In DH, this value allows researchers to scale analysis to large texts while maintaining the main points. Methods such as text mining, topic modeling, and visualization are used to answer humanities research questions about culture, history, and communication.